Torts is the best coach for this team. He is exactly the type of coach a hockey team in NY needs…

He reminds of another favorite coach of mine, NFL coach Tom Coughlin, who describes his style as a “benevolent dictatorship”. I think Torts follows a similar strategy and holds his players accountable (game by game and period by period)…both have won championships and coached great teams…

but still then some folks think they are egomaniacs and don’t get enough out of their players…

homegrown dubi is pure buzzkill…tho he was better today than in any game this season…..however, as orr points out, he is on pace for zero goals this season…..likely he will tie with #21 for 5th on the team at season end…not bad except to note that Avery’s 3 goals fron last season would be 2nd on the team come game 82 this year…

nyr fan – as a huge Gman fan…love the TC reference….but the best coach for the rangers would be rex ryan….the reason is simple enough….chris christie would need to be invited to sit at the end of the bench so that the collective weight would equalize…..and i for one will never tire from chris christie jokes…

dde – yes…i agree completely…that have a devil of time just making it to center ice….but once the forwards have possession…its dump and chase the other team after they have garnered control of the puck….

Homegrown Dubi is a headcase…I mean the kid is talented but he makes so many mental errors on the ice…throughout his career he’s been quite inconsistent and I think he’s ceiling is either as a decent second liner or good third liner who can kill penalties….but also takes too many dumb penalties…Dubi has a lot to prove in my eyes…He made some strides last year but he needs to step it up even more this season…remember, he had 9 goals in his first 10 games last year and ended the season with less than 30…

I wonder if Richards is thinking he should have signed with the Leafs. They’re doing awesome. He could be centering Kessel, who is tied for league lead in goals. Oh yeah, and he’d be making more money.

The most boring NYR team, in my time as a fan, was Renney’s team right before he was fired. Talk aboot depressing, uninspiring hockey. I actually rooted against them that year, so they can get a top pick, which they were only 13 points away from. Could have, at the very least, drafted Skinner.

It’s a shame Jagr wasted three years in the pathetic KHL. He could have had 700 goals by now. I’d love to see him join that club.

Regardless, he’s a HOF’er, and one of the greatest players ever. Love him! If the Flyers win the Cup, I’ll be sick, but the only good to come from that is Jagr getting another ring, and Flyers fans getting alcohol poisoning from the celebration.

Remember that game, it was one of Renney’s last games. There was a shift where NYR had four guys on the ice for almost a minute, and there was no penalty. That’s how bad that season was. Nobody on the bench realized it.

orr – while you are more annoying every day…..i have to agree with you re: jagr…..the dude is in amazing shape….quicker than a bunny rabbit and bullseye accuracy with his shot…..reminds me so much of Dubi it isnt funny…

I thought Joe M sized up Dubi’s season thus far pretty well. He’s had good shifts in each of the games, not consistently enough, though. Today was better.

He’s looks tight when he’s gotten his scoring chances but it wouldn’t be the first time someones pressed after signing a new contract. I thought he worked the boards as well as anyone today. He’s one of the few guys that can win the puck cleanly by himself with any consistency.
Maybe he needs to come off the boards and force it to the net himself some more.
I don’t byfuglien know. I’d still like to see Boyle with him and Cally, call me crazy.

I was forced to watch this game via Canadian program, and commentators. They said something toward the end of the game that really surprised me. They said that the Rangers are the only team in the league that has the fewest shots on goal, since opening day.

cccp=brooklyn pimp…..but you must admit that ec’s shootout move was excellent…..deke left and right and left and right and left and right and left and right and left and right…in fact he is still deking….like a swiss clock same movement over and over and over again….

sirhan sirhan sirhan was never closer than 10 feet or so and in FRONT of RFK…the burn wounds were on the back of his neck…14 casings found and he had either a 6 or 8 shooter ( i forget which) and never did he reload….and it gets better…..but i shall not go there…it depresses me too much

Different view of the Wolski hit looks worse than what I originally saw. It does look like he catches him with the elbow but it’s down against his side. I still say it wasn’t intentional to the head.
Wolski is 6’3″ and Alfredsson 5′ 11″ and is leaning as he turns into Wolski.

yeah, the real fans are the ones who sit behind their computer all day in their parents basement and rip the Ranger players day and night. yeah, right, you don’t “boo”them with your posts all day…… not at all, right?

Expect plenty of bad calls from the refs on Mon as the Sharks are the most favored team by the refs in the entire league,bar none, even Pitt is in second place. they just got a win on LI with a gift from the refs.

ranger fans have a right to boo. they support the team with great enthusiasm.

not a peep on marc staal…. i thought he was the 2nd most important ranger after henrik and I may be right. erixons demotion is no biggie, growing pains of young d man.

play woywitka and eminger as little as possible. emminger stinks. btw it is official newbury is nothing and never will be guy has been around for years, scared to handle the puck and no stick skills at all. zero…

the teenagers love there man 3 goal a year seany.. i have never seen a 12th forward get so much attention

dubi is a dumb hockey player . if he had a larger cranium he could be a 30 goal guy…that is not happening..

Lloyd, if you’re referring to Deveaux, he’s tough kid, and he’s had a scoring touch in the AHL last season…..maybe they want his toughness – we saw Newbury get his face pushed in on Thursday, so he’s apparently not the answer…

I’ve got news for you, the opinions of this forum re: Sean Avery are in the vast minority among Rangers fans. 75-80% of the Garden at any given home game is pro-Avery. You should have heard the number of people chanting his name today, and most of them weren’t teenagers.

Oh, sure, Rangers fans have all the right to boo. I just wish they’d put as much effort into cheering the team as they do complaining and booing. Yeah, yeah, the team isn’t playing well. Poor excuse, cause it’s nearly the same when they’re actually playing well.

Unless it’s 7-0, or something. Then you have the right to riot, as long as you don’t kill anyone! Or is that just a Canadian thing?

I have to say, when they scored the fourth goal, I kinda relaxed a bit, thinking that there was no way that Hank was gonna let that lead slip away – but we all know what happened. Maybe the rest of the team relaxed, too…

EC pissed me off today – the sole reason that they keep him on the roster is to score in the shootouts, and he couldn’t even do that – not one frickin’ player of ours could score in that shootout – disgusting!

Man what a day had to work early this A.M, then go to some youth hockey stuff for the wicsters (that wwas fun of course), then had to go get some hockey dental work corrected at the oral(insert jokes here) surgeon and then home in a bit fo a haze to watch the rangers….lose in a stupid skills competition

here are my thoughts…
I don’t know why we sit here and talk about an overrated player whose full salary is almost four mil who doesn’t really score consistently (has had one decent scoring season), who is horrible defencively, not really a good fighter at all, takes stupid selfish penalties and so many here think he is just flawless and can do no wrong, but yet huginsky must be a torts favorite because he is yet to see the bench.

You guys thought I was talking about avery didn’t you? Odd how huginsky plays a whole hell of a lot like the banished one isn’t it? Huginsky is home grown though, so it is ok!!

Wolski (or woofski) has two point in four games and woffski version 2.0 (or huginsky) has tree points in nine games, they both make almost 4 mil per and suck defencively…ahhh never mind woofski version 2.0 is home grown

so how many people just buried OPG when he screened hank on that goal like you guys did eminger?? Oh that’s right, I should have rephrased the question as how many different excuses did everyone make for OPG when he screened hank on that goal?? who did we blame it on instead?

or how about on three of the four goals OPG just looking lost and either screening hank or just watching the guy score from the slot instead of engaging him physically? But hey, he didn’t do his penguin routine that much so progress is being made!

did erixon play?

I thought the call on konopka was bogus and that the boyle hit was actually worse than the konopka one, but we penalize the result not the hit right??

brich looked good, give torts some credit for knowing how to motivate him (or so it seems)

speaking of motivated, looks like a good gabby year (hope i didn’t just jinx it)

Possibly, Wick. They can’t hold Turris hostage forever. It’s pretty fugged up what they’re doing. Kind of like what that NFL team was doing to their QB. It took them five or six weeks to finally decide to trade him.

that souray guy sure sucks, too slow for sure I mean he only has 3 goals so far (and one of them a dubi special, you know the one that is scored when the game is on the line in that empty net).

If he was a real d man he would have all those goals like those quality “homegrown” ranger d men, but he only has 3….he sucks, man is he slow, that slow speed really affects his shot too, he only has 3 goals.

I will take a guy with slow foot speed, good hockey sense, and that sticks up for his teammates over a speed demon any day. But you guys are right, speed is the most important thing, just ask rico fata or envir lisin etc.

So we are back to rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic again. Deveux, another career minor leaguer who can’t skate and will do nothing here is up. But dale weise who can actually play gets put on waivers for some reason.

Try switching teams..Rangers to Hartford and Whales to the Garden ………………..stop that scornful giggling, can’t ya take a joke? But think aboot it for a momento………could the results be much different than they have been ( goaltending the only exception of course)””I believe that Perry Pearns is available as coaching insertion.
Where would that leave Tortorella…………..?
As a scout of unusual talent in the Yukon Territory perhaps?Ahhhh, whimsy……it flows like a river during opening weeks of seasons like this one. After a while there’s no room left for rage….it’s like getting mad at a dwarf because of his size.